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Comment by ok_dad | Hacker News Reader

It’s so bad. I switched from Pixel to iPhone and the main gripe I have is the keyboard. It’s the worst autocorrect experience ever. It constantly gets words wrong. The word “and” is constantly replaced with Abe, abs, or something else. Funny enough, just now when I was trying to type those words, it actually replaced them with “and”! Seriously, the developers of this keyboard soils be ashamed.

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With both French and English enabled, it sometimes randomly "corrects" the English word "the" to the French word "thé" (meaning "tea" in English), despite every other word so far being English and despite the fact it would make no grammatical sense.

Most infuriating of all though is when it lets you think you've got through the gauntlet of perfectly valid words being replaced with nonsensical ones, only for it to swap out the last _two words_ you've typed!

I've had that replacement (the -> thé) and have never even enabled or used a French language keyboard on my device. At this point I disable autocomplete and autocorrect completely, on macOS and iOS.

I switched from Pixel to iPhone and lasted a week, the keyboard, among many things - was a real deal breaker. MS SwiftKey is a notch better than the rest (even GBoard) on iPhones, but nothing holds a candle to just typing on a stock Pixel's keyboard.

Swiftkey doesn't enable swiping unless you give it full access which is worse than gboard.

> Seriously, the developers of this keyboard soils be ashamed. [emphasis added]

It must have autocorrected your attempt to write "should"?!

Yep. Didn’t even notice.

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